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Originally Posted by tony404
It wouldnt be a indicator because the playing field is different. There was no free porn back then unless you wanted to try and watch the playboy channel scrambled. Since there was no free porn, porn never got hit hard and thats why people say the adult industry is recession proof but that was a time before you could watch 30 min scenes for free.
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How does this counter my case where you look into the data of the past and discover that porn actually DID go into a recession along with other industries in the past? The difficulty with the initial assumption that it is (or was) recession-proof is that some of have heard it for so long we assumed it was true in the past just based on the statement. How many of us have been through even the last two recessions as business owners? Even if so how relevant would those limited experiences be? Phone text? Store owner? Whate would even qualify as related?
Who has dug up the SEC reports of Playboy from 1970 to the present even to initially and tentatively verify the assumption? I think that is the only data even possibly available.
I'm having a difficult time believing that some consulting firm put together evidence after the '74 recession that porn was a "recession proof business".
You could do this pretty easy for alcohol or cigarettes but porn is gonna be really tough.
Again i will repeat. I think if you find in the best case that porn was in a recession similar to other industries in the past we will go into an industry-recession this time. The point YOU'VE made only enhances that. With the option to move to more free porn the industry will be hit even harder than then.
I make ZERO claim to actually knowing how the industry handled recession overall in say 74 or 80. Did people buy more or less porn then? Not a clue.